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were quite poor, this past year; some of the theater owners in the provinces, the stronghold of domestic films, report a smaller attendance at Danish pictures and stress the importance of an immediate improvement. At the same time other domestic films made a good box-office record. For example, two of the Asa pictures drew 225,000 persons each during the first 3| weeks of their Copenhagen run.
The number of film distributors has increased in late years, and at present there are around 32 operating in this market, giving local theater owners a wide choice of films. There are six American film distributors, several of which import a few European films from time to time. Of the remainder the following, all of which are located in Copenhagen, are the most active:
Na-na of company Films distributed
Gloria Film A/S American, French, Swedish
Finlandia Film Finnish
Gefion Film Swedish, German
Nordisk Films Kompagni A/S Danish, German
Aero Film German, French
Filmaktieselskabet Nordlys .German, Austrian
Bolvig Film American, French, English, Swedish
Fotorama Filmbureau A/S French, German, English, Swedish, Italian
Dansk Svensk Film Swedish
Skandinavisk Film American, German, French, Czechoslovakian
Film-Centralen-Palladium A/S Danish, German, Austrian, French, American
Constantin Films A/S French, English
Kosmofilm A/S French
Vald. Skaarup Russian, French, German
Panther Film English
Europa Film French
Fifteen of the distributors, including the six American branches, are joined together in Foreningen af Filmsudlej ere i Danmark (Association of Film Distributors in Denmark) .
The Danish film-producing companies distribute their own films.
Local distributors rent out m.jtion-picture films to first-run distributors on a percentage basis amounting to 30 percent of box-office receipts, exclusive of tax. Second-run houses pay 25 percent. No guarantee is required, and bloc booking is not practiced.
COPYRIGHT RELATIONS
The laws of the country protect copyrights on a reciprocal basis. The Nordisk Films Kompagni which control.? the Scandinavian patent rights to the so-called "noiseless intensity system" exacts a fee of 350 crowns for each
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